Today's Tids Issue 2,230
Opening Stuff:
There is nothing more
exhilarating, captivating, than the pure, unadulterated, fully explosive
wide eyed excitement of kids
This is the season,
as Bill Murray may have said, when the weird get going. Just today we learn: --Up in Marshfield Mass, a delightful
community, the school board spent valuable time passing a new order against the
will of 4,000 petitioners to change “Christmas Break” to “Holiday Break”. --Down here 30-40 miles south of that
home of Daniel Webster (And Arrowsmith’s Stephen Tyler), the local atheist
organization has purchased advertising signs for Providence and Newport buses
“Godless – We are too”. --Up in Providence, local school
teachers thought it a good idea to revise T-Day history so Hispanic kids
wouldn’t feel guilty eating Tacos and pizza on the big family day. --Up in Belmont Mass, The Butler School
loons cancelled a class trip to the performance of “The Nutcracker*,
because…are you ready…because there was a Christmas tree on the stage! --Here’s
the real problem: These are relatively small innocuous incidents, but the media
coverage gives them a perception of importance.
*For the record
there have been no reported instances of a child spontaneously converting to
the Christian faith while attending a performance of “The Nutcracker”.
As one consistently
creative reader-contributor says this morning: “Don’t forget to set you’re
scales back 10 pounds this week.”
Instead of protesting
bogie men, the real, rational leaders of the black community should help he
people rise above the golden calf’s, to protest the black leadership holding
them down; the enablers, the drug dealers, the government.
The Question:
Who was I reality the First President of the USA? What does
this have to do with Thanksgiving.
The Headlines:
--Snow Disrupting Trips To Grandmas.
--US New Jobless Benefits Claims Jumps Surprisingly up To
313,000; Seasonal Temp Jobs Not Big Enough To Balance Cold Weather Construction
Layoffs.
--White House working To Scuttle House Effort To Extend And
Make Tax Cuts Permanent.
--Obama Plan To give Business $3,00 Per Illegal Immigrant
Hire.
--Justice Ginsburg Has Surgery For Coronary Blockage.
--Russian Troops Bolstering Eastern Ukraine Rebels; NATO
Says Russia Ready To Strike..
--New Poll For 2016 Shows Mitt at 45% Over The Hill’s 44%;
Romney (19) Ahead Of Repubs Jeb (11), Christie and Carson (8) and Rand (6).
--16 Million Americans to Eat “Tofurky” This Holiday.
We in my family are
all at a loss, not just because we’ll miss my sister’s infectious laugh,
but because she always made the Cauliflower au Gratin. We have no clue of her
secret recipe, but here’s one. Preheat oven til 375. Cut 3 lb head into large
florets. And cook 5-6 mins in boiling slated water. Drain. In saucepan at low
heat melt 2 tbs butter, and add 3 tbs flour, stirring for 2 min. Pour in 2 cps
hot milk, stir to boil. Whisk and boil for Min. remove from heat and add 1 tsp
salt, ½ tsp pep, ¼ tsp nutmeg, ½ cp grated gruyere (gg), ½ cp parmesan. Pout
1/3 of sauce on bottom on=f 11x2 in baking dish. Place drained Cauli on top
then remaining sauce over that. Mix ¼ cp breadcrumbs w/ ¼ cp gg and sprinkle on
top. Drizzle 2 tbs melted but over top. Bake 25/30 mins. Is great addition to
T-day meal especially when cheese sauce runs into rich brown T-Gravy. Or
Tofurky gravy, if you prefer sobbing veggies over screaming birds.
I’m sure by now we
all have stories about protests rising up in our various communities. Up
here, the brain dead thought it a good idea to sit down in the middle of
Interstate 95 and stop traffic. I was surprised nobody was killed. One of the
more disgusting TV images from that event was an interview with a well dressed
female college student – Burberry scarf and all – cooly and smugly stating that
it was criminal the way the police arrested her sister. Then I went to bed and
didn’t lose a second of sleep over it.
I’m a day early with
the Picks, but tomorrow I’ll be mainly picking my teeth after a great
turkey meal. It begins tomorrow with three really good games. I’m picking
Detroit over Chi and then in close
battles Dallas over Philly and in a real “pick-um”, Seattle beating the odds
against SF. Houston, SL, Minn and Indy should beat Tenn, Oakland, Carolina and
Washington respectively. In a nail biter I have to pick the home team Buffalo
over Cleve (Could go either way). I like the ay Balt is playing now and the
shouldtake SD, and even the Gianst amy pull one ff against Jax.Cinncy is out of
the mid-season doldrums =and should take TB. Pitt at home should beat NO in a
close war. I like Ariz over Atlanta (Keeping Atl, NO atop NFC South at 4-8?).
Denver and KC will be a battle. Manning seems back and KC flopped badly last
week. But. I’m picking the upset – KC. An even bigger battle will be the
possible SB preview, GB and NE in the frozen tundra of Green Bay. Do I pick,
with my heart or my brain. Brady-Rogers, often compared, but never before have
they met. GB can score but they don’t defend like the Pats do. I’m sticking
with my heart.
The media portrayed
Michael Brown as this baby-faced teen innocent when in reality he was a
6’5” 289 pound behemoth, bully, felon and all around thug. If the media were ever
to tell the real truth about all of the black community and not the one portrayed
by the leftists and money grubbing leaders like Al and Jesse, then race
relations would have a chance. Oh, wait a minute, the media is part of the
left. Check out this black man’s view of the black community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsQwl_19M4
I’ve seen TV news
scenes of people lining up to buy birds at free range farms and also with
for less cheaper birds at check counters in supermarkets. But in the end the
birds get stuffed and people eat them.
I like battlers in
sports. Part of being good Red Sox fan even in bad times is having guys
like Daniel Nava and Brock Holt to root for. But now free agency has reared its
ugly head and celebrated, high paid newbies may force out some of my favorites.
So, it’s back to rooting for the uniform instead of the players. And we still
don’t have any pitching.
One of the pics
of a local protest event showed a group of Hispanics burning an American Flag.
What, did their US Government Check bounce?
This year the new
anti meat tact among vegetarians is telling people they should be aware of
the shrieks and howls of the turkey friends left behind as their family and or
pals are taken to slaughter. Did you ever watch a bean sprout weep as the
thresher came by with its onerous decapitating blade? It’s gut-wrenching.
Reward developers
who bring back Main Street. Save us from strip malls.
There’s no truth
to the rumor that Al Sharpton wants to dedicate Black Friday to Michael Brown?
The Movie reviewers
are united in warning people about the dangers of paying money to see Bad
Bosses 2.
I thought that the
voters go it right on The Voice last night. Regan James has the ability to
be a future star, but she showed recently that she isn’t quite ready for prime
time. Ryan continues to be easy to listens
to, even if he misses the mark for the new genres.
The Answer:
George Washington was actually the first President of the
Second US Government. The US formed an earlier Gov under the Articles of
Confederation and the President was John Hanson. John was also the President”
who made the Pilgrim’s holiday an annual remembrance of the courageous beginnings
of the nation. Hanson, from Frederick Maryland, led the US through the critical
lost decade following the Revolution when the country was teetering on debt and
insecure of its future. Hanson united the colonies and created a workable
government out of nothing. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklyn and others
acknowledged Hanson as the man who saved the country.
The Pilgrim Song:
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